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Date: April 25, 2018 Category: news

Please join us Thursday, April 27, for a public dialogue on Johns Hopkins University’s recent initiative to establish a police force. The event will be held at the West Lecture Hall of the Armstrong Building, JHU Medical Campus (1600 McElderry St.) from 5-8 p.m.

Date: April 16, 2018 Category: news

Congratulations to Michael Degani, who has been awarded a 2018 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for his book project The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania. Peer reviewers selected the fellows from a pool of nearly 1,150 applicants. Awards range from $40,000 to $70,000, depending on the scholar’s career stage, and support scholars for six to twelve months of full-time research and writing.

Date: April 10, 2018 Category: news

Congratulations to Isaias Rojas-Perez for being awarded the Flora Tristan Book Prize 2018 for his book “Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes” (Stanford University Press, 2017), given by the Latin American Studies Association Peru Section to the best book on Peru published in any language in 2017.

Date: February 14, 2018 Category: news

If as many as 80 percent of doctoral students in cultural anthropology are not getting tenure-track jobs, then why are PhD programs in the United States almost exclusively training them for a professional life that few will realize? A new essay from David Platzer and Anne Allison tackles this question head-on.

Date: February 9, 2018 Category: news

Hidden Museums of Crochet, an exhibition photographed and curated by Megha Sharma Sehdev, will be on display in Gallery Q in the MSE Library, Feb. 15 through March 15. Join us for an opening reception 5-6 p.m., Feb. 15. Refreshments will be served. The exhibit is sponsored by the Mellon Arts and Innovation Grant, Trude and Joseph Alpert Book and Exhibit Fund, JHU Center for Advanced Media Studies, and JHU Department of Anthropology.

Date: January 24, 2018 Category: news

The 2018 Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Conference will be held May 4-5. The conference, titled, “Being with Others in More-Than-Human Worlds,” will feature keynote speaker Natasha Myers from York University. Proposals that examine the modes of being and working with that are operative within more-than-human networks of relationality are invited.

Date: November 22, 2017 Category: news

In an interview with the Social Science Research Council, graduate student David Platzer talks about his work as a user experience researcher for Adobe. He also discusses his dissertation research on autism, technology, and social design, and he shares his perspective on connecting academia and industry.

Date: October 4, 2017 Category: news

Associate Professor Naveeda Khan was interviewed by Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe for their podcast series Cultures of Energy, sponsored by the Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University.